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Draught :: Draught (v. t.) To draw in outline; to make a draught, sketch, or plan of, as in architectural and mechanical drawing..

Pleader :: Pleader (n.) One who draws up or forms pleas; the draughtsman of pleas or pleadings in the widest sense; as, a special pleader..

Draught :: Draught (n.) The depth of water necessary to float a ship, or the depth a ship sinks in water, especially when laden; as, a ship of twelve feet draught..

Solitaire :: Solitaire (n.) A game which one person can play alone; -- applied to many games of cards, etc.; also, to a game played on a board with pegs or balls, in which the object is, beginning with all the places filled except one, to remove all but one of the pieces by jumping, as in draughts..

Dam :: Dam (n.) A kind or crowned piece in the game of draughts.

Table :: Table (n.) The games of backgammon and of draughts.

Draff :: Draff (n.) The form of any writing as first drawn up; the first rough sketch of written composition, to be filled in, or completed. See Draught..

Plot :: Plot (n.) A plan or draught of a field, farm, estate, etc., drawn to a scale..

Swig :: Swig (n.) A long draught.

Draught :: Draught (n.) An allowance on weighable goods. [Eng.] See Draft, 4..

Draughts :: Draughts (n. pl.) A mild vesicatory. See Draught, n., 3 (c)..

Draughty :: Draughty (a.) Pertaining to a draught, or current of air; as, a draughtly, comfortless room..

Hood :: Hood (n.) A chimney top, often contrived to secure a constant draught by turning with the wind..

Evener :: Evener (n.) In vehicles, a swinging crossbar, to the ends of which other crossbars, or whiffletrees, are hung, to equalize the draught when two or three horses are used abreast..

Scribe :: Scribe (n.) One who writes; a draughtsman; a writer for another; especially, an offical or public writer; an amanuensis or secretary; a notary; a copyist..

Graticulation :: Graticulation (n.) The division of a design or draught into squares, in order the more easily to reproduce it in larger or smaller dimensions..

Triangle :: Triangle (n.) A draughtsman's square in the form of a right-angled triangle.

Hame :: Hame (n.) One of the two curved pieces of wood or metal, in the harness of a draught horse, to which the traces are fastened. They are fitted upon the collar, or have pads fitting the horse's neck attached to them..

Swiller :: Swill (n.) Large draughts of liquor; drink taken in excessive quantities.

King :: King (n.) A crowned man in the game of draughts.

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